Interest-Earning Relationships

Hey, Cadre family doctor Kerry here. 07 entry into my account and remembered, oh, that's right, I have an interest earning checking account. 07 is not a lot of money, depending on how you look at it. But it's nice to be able to add that into my log. I keep a spreadsheet of my checking account and I balance it and match them up, but it's nice to be able to add that, like, a little bit of just extra income, but I do nothing to earn. Right. Like the bank is saying, I'm investing in you and you share your money with us.

You like to keep your money with us. So we're going to give you a little bit of money at the end of every month. And it's just a nice benefit that banks offer. And it made me realize we call this interest. Like, that's literally how I label it in my log for my checking account. Why is it called interesting? What does that mean? And so I looked at the definition of the word interest, and there's two different definitions. And one of them pertains to showing that you want to learn more about something or someone or the banking definition, but really, they kind of are the same definition, right.

The bank is saying, we are showing an interest in you. We want to keep you giving us your money. We want to keep investing in you. And so we're giving you a little bit of extra sense at the end of the month to show you that we have an interest in you. And we like you. We like you as a customer. And that same word is used a lot in relationships, right? Like, we have an interest in someone else. But at what point in relationships do we stop depositing? Do we stop saying, you know what, I have an interest in you, but I'm not actually showing you by giving you those seven cents at the end of the month or on a daily basis.

I'm sending you that text message, I'm gonna make dinner for you tonight. And I realize this is such an easy slide, an easy downfall slide in relationships. When we stop giving interest, we stop investing in our relationships, especially when you're married, because those relationships are so easy. Not easy. I don't mean it like that, but because you're living with the person, you expect them to be there, and you just kind of go about your daily life, especially if things are chaotic and you have kids and you have busy schedules, and we stop investing.

We stop showing interest and saying to that person. You know what? I really appreciate you today. You look great today. Thanks for making dinner. That really meant a lot to me. That was you putting interest into me and into our relationship, and I'm going to show you that interest back. So I want to challenge you today to do an inventory of your relationships. Where do you need to deposit? Where do you need to show a little bit more interest for that other person to know how you actually feel about them?

And I would love to know how this works for you, because I know for me personally, sometimes saying the words of affirmation isn't easy for me, but I know that's a really important thing for my partner. So I make sure that I do this general check in every once in a while, every week, every month, to say, like, how am I doing with that? And do those check ins with your partner? How is the balance going in our account together here? Do you need me to deposit more interest? So challenge you to do that inventory and try that.

And just remember that that person might need to hear from you today how much you care about them and how much you value them. Thank you, God, for tuning in with me, and God bless.